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HumorGen: Cognitive Synergy for Humor Generation in Large Language Models via Persona-Based Distillation

Edward Ajayi, Prasenjit Mitra

Cognitive personas synthesizing humor data let a 7B model match or beat much larger LLMs at comedy.

arxiv:2604.09629 v2 · 2026-03-19 · cs.CL

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C1strongest claim

our 7B model significantly outperforms larger instruction-tuned baselines and achieves performance competitive with state-of-the-art proprietary models. We find that cognitive-driven data curation is far more critical than alignment algorithms or model scale for humor generation.

C2weakest assumption

The humor data synthesized using the six cognitive personas through the Mixture-of-Thought approach provides a high-quality, diverse training signal that effectively improves the model's humor generation capabilities beyond what standard methods achieve.

C3one line summary

A 7B LLM fine-tuned on humor data generated via six cognitive personas and Mixture-of-Thought outperforms larger instruction-tuned baselines and competes with proprietary models.

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First computed	2026-05-29T01:05:09.218698Z
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11fb5ffe76e04ad38497f80544d60ac73f0b103bce0d44165748bf69ec58a0f3

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arxiv: 2604.09629 · arxiv_version: 2604.09629v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.09629 · pith_short_12: CH5V77TW4BFN · pith_short_16: CH5V77TW4BFNHBEX · pith_short_8: CH5V77TW

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